DHAKA: A Romanian woman was imprisoned, raped and repeatedly beaten at a house in Austria for more than a month before escaping when her attacker got drunk. The police said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. Badly hurt with fractured ribs, the 40-year-old woman fled to her former

DHAKA: Yemen’s president has removed heavy artillery from the outskirts of the capital, following fears the former president was plotting a coup. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi removed the heavy weaponry stationed on hills surrounding Sanaa on Monday amid reports his predecessor, Ali

DHAKA: At least 15 people have been killed in a new attack by Islamist militants near Kenya’s coastal town of Mpeketoni. Local police say, reports the BBC. They say the gunmen raided two villages overnight. Somalia’s al-Shabab group said it had carried out the attack, telling media

DHAKA: At least seven people were killed on Tuesday when the Pakistani police clashed with followers of a fiery preacher in the eastern city of Lahore. Hospital officials said, reports The Straits Times. The clashes involved supporters of Canadian-Pakistani Tahir-ul-Qadri who held a

DHAKA: More deadly violence flared in a Sri Lankan resort region where Buddhist hardliners set shops and homes alight for a second night running in defiance of a curfew. The police and residents said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. Amid mounting international concern at the

DHAKA: Thailand’s military government has paid rice farmers all the arrears of 92.4 billion baht owed under a controversial state purchase scheme. A senior official of the bank that funded the programme said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. The move ended the government’s

DHAKA: The kidnappers of three yeshiva students last weekend are not terrorists, Israel’s parliament member Hanin Zoabi (Balad) said Tuesday. ‘They’re people who don’t see any way to change their reality and they are forced to use these means until Israel will wake up a little,

DHAKA: Afghan police hunted down and killed two Taliban insurgents who cut off the fingers of 11 elderly men who voted in the presidential election run-off.Officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.All voters in Afghanistan had their fingers marked with ink after voting to

DHAKA: UK foreign secretary William Hague will announce a plan on Tuesday which will lead to the re-opening of the British embassy in Iran's capital, Tehran. Full diplomatic relations with Iran were suspended after attacks on the British embassy in Iran in 2011. The election of a new

DHAKA: Egypt’s prime minister Ibrahim Mehleb was sworn in on Tuesday at the head of a new government that retained key economic and security ministers but created a new investment post to attract funds to an economy racked by years of political turmoil.Mehleb, followed by his

DHAKA: A bus carrying tourists plunged off a mountain road into a gorge in a Himalayan region in northern India, killing 11 people, police said Tuesday.“All the 11 dead are tourists, the toll could rise,” said B.S. Thakur, a senior state police officer.Around 40 others were

DHAKA: The United States on Monday asked Sri Lanka to quell an anti-Muslim riot that has killed three and wounded nearly 100 members of the minority community in two southern tourist regions of the country.“We urge the government to ensure that order is preserved and the lives of

DHAKA: Pakistani and Afghan leaders have discussed regional security amid air strikes against militants in Pakistan’s north-west tribal areas.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks by phone, on the second day of Pakistani air raids in North

DHAKA: US President Barak Obama notified Congress on Monday that about 275 U.S. military personnel are deploying to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Obama also said the troops are equipped for combat and will remain in Iraq until

DHAKA: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has been served with an arrest warrant in relation to a fraud case, the head of the South Pacific country's anti-corruption body says. The warrant relates to allegations that O'Neill personally authorised the illegal payment of about

DHAKA: Chinese authorities executed 13 people on Monday for ‘terrorist attacks and violent crimes’ in the violence-wracked northwestern region of Xinjiang. State media said, reports The Straits Times. The announcement by Xinhua news agency said the 13 were involved in seven

DHAKA: The United States is considering US air strikes to help the Iraqi government fend off an Islamist insurgency as well as possible discussions with neighbouring Iran. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday. Asked about the possibility of such strikes, Kerry said in an

DHAKA: Indonesian prosecutors sought a life sentence Monday for a former top judge accused of accepting bribes in more than a dozen cases involving regional election disputes, and of money-laundering. Former constitutional court chief judge Akil Mochtar was arrested last year by

DHAKA: A US warship entered the Gulf on Monday carrying hundreds of marines and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in case they are needed to protect Americans in Iraq. The Pentagon said, reports The Straits Times. ‘It’s presence in the Gulf adds to that of other US naval ships already

DHAKA: Ukraine says Russia has cut off all gas supplies to Kiev, in a major escalation of a dispute between the two nations. ‘Gas supplies to Ukraine have been reduced to zero,’ Ukraine energy minister Yuri Prodan said, reports the BBC. Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom said